PP Easy Chickpea Nuggets

Chef: Brittany Jaroudi, The Jaroudi Family

Makes: 12-14 nuggets

Prep Time: 15 min

Cook Time: 40 min

Total Time: 55 min

INGREDIENTS

Chickpea Nuggets

• 1-15.5 oz can chickpeas (save the liquid from the can and rinse beans)

• 6 T chickpea liquid (aquafaba)

• 1 c oat flour (blend rolled oats in a high-speed blender to make flour)

• 1 T Italian/Pizza seasoning

• 1 T nutritional yeast

• ½ t turmeric powder

• 1 t white miso

• Pinch black pepper

Breading

• ¼ c nondairy milk

• ½ c whole wheat breadcrumbs

• 2 t Italian/pizza seasoning

DIRECTIONS

1. Add all ingredients for the chickpea nuggets into a food processor and mix until everything is well combined. (DO NOT add breading ingredients!)

2. Form nugget shapes with the mixture, 12-14 nuggets.

3. Place ¼ c of nondairy unsweetened milk in a bowl.

4. Mix whole wheat breadcrumbs and 2 t Italian/pizza seasoning together.

5. Create a dredge with each chickpea nugget-goes into nondairy milk and then into breadcrumb mixture.

6. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 min. Flip the nuggets at the halfway point.

Brittany Jaroudi runs a plant-based cooking YouTube channel named The Jaroudi Family. She has developed hundreds of delicious, easy, and family-friendly recipes focused on a whole food plant-based lifestyle. She has an M.Ed. in education and a certificate in plant-based nutrition from T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Currently, she is the co-leader of the Pittsburgh Plant-Based Support Group in partnership with PlantPure Communities offering free nutrition education classes and cooking courses. Follow Brittany at: The Jaroudi Family, You Tube, Facebook, Pintrest, Instagram.